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148
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146
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Medicine

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Citations
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Peter K. Gregersen publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Peter K. Gregersen sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 485 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Peter K. Gregersen D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Peter K. Gregersen sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 148 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award

Overview

Peter K. Gregersen is affiliated with the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine and immunology, addressing fundamental and applied questions in these fields.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Immunology and Microbiology

Within these fields, key subfields of study include:

  • Immunology
  • Rheumatology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Genetics

Their research work covers a variety of significant topics, such as:

  • Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Endometriosis Research and Treatment
  • Reproductive System and Pregnancy
  • Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research

Peter K. Gregersen has frequently published in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Genetics
  • Nature
  • The Journal of Experimental Medicine
  • Arthritis & Rheumatology

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • V. Michael Holers
  • Jacques Fellay
  • S. Louis Bridges
  • Kevin D. Deane
  • Jennifer H. Anolik

Recent papers authored by or involving Peter K. Gregersen include:

  • Notch signalling drives synovial fibroblast identity and arthritis pathology, 2020, Nature
  • TDP-43 loss and ALS-risk SNPs drive mis-splicing and depletion of UNC13A, 2022, Nature
  • Menstruation: science and society, 2020, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Multi-ancestry genome-wide association analyses identify novel genetic mechanisms in rheumatoid arthritis, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Fine-mapping, trans-ancestral and genomic analyses identify causal variants, cells, genes and drug targets for type 1 diabetes, 2021, Nature Genetics

Best Publications

  • A Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies IL23R as an Inflammatory Bowel Disease Gene

    Richard H. Duerr;Kent D. Taylor;Steven R. Brant;Steven R. Brant;John D. Rioux;John D. Rioux

  • Strong Association of De Novo Copy Number Mutations with Autism

    Jonathan Sebat;B. Lakshmi;Dheeraj Malhotra;Jennifer Troge

  • The shared epitope hypothesis. An approach to understanding the molecular genetics of susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis.

    Peter K. Gregersen;Jack Silver;Robert J. Winchester

  • Genetics of rheumatoid arthritis contributes to biology and drug discovery

    Yukinori Okada;Yukinori Okada;Di Wu;Di Wu;Di Wu;Gosia Trynka;Gosia Trynka;Towfique Raj;Towfique Raj

  • Interferon-inducible gene expression signature in peripheral blood cells of patients with severe lupus

    Emily C. Baechler;Franak M. Batliwalla;George Karypis;Patrick M. Gaffney

  • Human polymorphism at microRNAs and microRNA target sites.

    Liuqing Yang;Chunru Lin;Chunyu Jin;Joy C. Yang

  • A missense single-nucleotide polymorphism in a gene encoding a protein tyrosine phosphatase (PTPN22) is associated with rheumatoid arthritis.

    Ann B. Begovich;Victoria E H Carlton;Lee A. Honigberg;Steven J. Schrodi

  • Genome-wide association study meta-analysis identifies seven new rheumatoid arthritis risk loci

    Eli A Stahl;Soumya Raychaudhuri;Soumya Raychaudhuri;Elaine F Remmers;Gang Xie

  • Genome-wide association scan in women with systemic lupus erythematosus identifies susceptibility variants in ITGAM, PXK, KIAA1542 and other loci.

    John B. Harley;John B. Harley;John B. Harley;Marta E. Alarcón-Riquelme;Lindsey A. Criswell;Chaim O. Jacob

  • Defining inflammatory cell states in rheumatoid arthritis joint synovial tissues by integrating single-cell transcriptomics and mass cytometry.

    Fan Zhang;Kevin Wei;Kamil Slowikowski;Chamith Y Fonseka

  • STAT4 and the Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

    Elaine F. Remmers;Robert M. Plenge;Annette T. Lee;Robert R. Graham;Robert R. Graham

  • Association of systemic lupus erythematosus with C8orf13-BLK and ITGAM-ITGAX.

    Geoffrey Hom;Robert R. Graham;Barmak Modrek;Kimberly E. Taylor

  • Five amino acids in three HLA proteins explain most of the association between MHC and seropositive rheumatoid arthritis

    Soumya Raychaudhuri;Cynthia Sandor;Eli A. Stahl;Eli A. Stahl;Jan Freudenberg

  • An autoinflammatory disease with deficiency of the interleukin-1-receptor antagonist

    Ivona Aksentijevich;Seth L. Masters;Polly J. Ferguson;Paul Dancey

  • TRAF1–C5 as a Risk Locus for Rheumatoid Arthritis — A Genomewide Study

    Robert M. Plenge;Mark Seielstad;Leonid Padyukov;Annette T. Lee

  • A large-scale replication study identifies TNIP1, PRDM1, JAZF1, UHRF1BP1 and IL10 as risk loci for systemic lupus erythematosus

    Vesela Gateva;Johanna K. Sandling;Geoff Hom;Kimberly E. Taylor

  • Genome-wide association study in alopecia areata implicates both innate and adaptive immunity

    Lynn Petukhova;Madeleine Duvic;Maria Hordinsky;David Norris

  • Genetic association of the R620W polymorphism of protein tyrosine phosphatase PTPN22 with human SLE.

    Chieko Kyogoku;Carl D. Langefeld;Ward A. Ortmann;Annette Lee

  • Refining the complex rheumatoid arthritis phenotype based on specificity of the HLA-DRB1 shared epitope for antibodies to citrullinated proteins.

    Tom W. J. Huizinga;Christopher I. Amos;Annette H. M. van der Helm-van Mil;Wei Chen

  • A common haplotype of interferon regulatory factor 5 (IRF5) regulates splicing and expression and is associated with increased risk of systemic lupus erythematosus.

    Robert R. Graham;Robert R. Graham;Sergey V. Kozyrev;Emily C. Baechler;M. V.Prasad Linga Reddy

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert M. Plenge
Robert M. Plenge Bristol Myers Squibb
Soumya Raychaudhuri
Soumya Raychaudhuri Brigham and Women's Hospital
Annette T. Lee
Annette T. Lee Northwell Health
Michael F. Seldin
Michael F. Seldin University of California, Davis
Lindsey A. Criswell
Lindsey A. Criswell National Institutes of Health
Leonid Padyukov
Leonid Padyukov Karolinska Institute
Timothy W. Behrens
Timothy W. Behrens Xaira Therapeutics
Jane Worthington
Jane Worthington University of Manchester
Christopher I. Amos
Christopher I. Amos Baylor College of Medicine
Lars Klareskog
Lars Klareskog Karolinska Institute

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